moving to Somerville and looking for Tips

[silencespeaker.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I'm moving to Somerville from Burlington, VT. I was thrilled to see this live journal community - makes the move considerably less daunting. I was hoping people might have good advice for me. I'm interested in joining any sort of existing craft clubs (knitting, sewing, beadwork, ribbon embroidery, clothing, felting, etc.), cooking clubs (I make wonderful challah, apple pie, chocolate chip banana bread), belly dancing classes (I saw some other posts on that subject that I need to check out in more detail) and I'm also looking for a teacher for beginner Celtic Harp. I'd be interested in starting little craft or movie or cooking or even costume clubs (i'm a face painter) if there's an interest. I love meeting new people and I hope this move will prove to be a fantastic decision.

Thanks! Dinah

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[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

Welcome!
There is a craft studio in Porter square (near Davis) called Spark Crafts (http://www.sparkcrafts.com/) - they have classes in beading, knitting, sewing, etc., but my experience is they're kinda geared to the Martha Stewart-y crowd.
As someone else mentioned, there is Mind's Eye (http://mindseyeyarns.com/), and while I don't know if they have classes in it or if they run any clubs/groups/informal gatherings, I've also seen them dying their own yarn.
While not in Davis, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education (http://www.ccae.org/) has all kinds of groups and classes. (there's the BCAE (http://www.bcae.org/) as well).
The Somerville Library (http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=SVILLE) hosts a weekly needlework group Monday nights at the Davis Square branch.
There at least used to be knitting groups that met on Sundays at both Porter Square Books (http://www.portersquarebooks.com/) and True Grounds (http://www.truegrounds.com/).
The Northern Lights Costumer's Guild (http://noel.pothole.com/) has some of their meetings close-ish to Davis.
keemao was trying to get a sewing group together in this community at one point, I don't know if that's still happening.
And myself and at least one of my soon-to-be-roommates in the area are crafty and tossing about the idea of small crafty gatherings.

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

I think there's also a knitting group at the library, but I've forgotten the details. Ask about it if you stop by for the needlework group. =:)

[silencespeaker.livejournal.com]

thanks for all the great tips! if you do have a craft club, please let me know, and i'll do the same. it'll be great inspiration to finish the gazillion projects i have started!